Danny Byrd, the renowned DJ, producer and musician, has recently upgraded his creative space at home with a new monitoring set up that features Genelec 8351s. Launched to worldwide acclaim, the ground-breaking new monitors have met with Danny’s approval and delivered the high-end performance his work demands.

Nevion, a leader in transporting media from the camera to the home, has today announced an agreement to supply its latest media monitoring probe, the TNS4200, to both Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcaster, which creates content aimed at audiences outside of Germany, and parent company ARD – the Association of Public Service Broadcasters of Germany, the world’s second-largest public sector broadcaster.

As a leading specialist technical solutions agency, TechRig approached SGM’s local distributor S.E.T Africa to expand their rental stock with SGM luminaires. “We were looking for cutting-edge LED solutions, and that’s why we selected the SGM products”, says Director of TechRig, Michael Collyer. He adds: “The Q-7 is a nice small multipurpose unit, which can be used as a colour washing set piece to eye candy extravaganza.”

Dejero, an innovator in the remote acquisition, cloud management, and multiscreen distribution of professional live video over IP, has signed a distribution agreement with Monerjan Medientechnik in Germany. Monerjan Medientechnik will represent Dejero's LIVE+ cloud-based platform of simple-to-use mobile transmitters, servers, software, and cloud services to broadcasters and other media enterprises throughout Germany.

Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, together with co-founding sponsor Ericsson, today announced the 4K 4Charity Corporate Challenge to expand the opportunity for participation in the 4K 4Charity Fun Run at IBC2015 and increase charitable giving to CARE, a leading humanitarian organization that fights global poverty. Also sponsored by IBC Show, the 4K 4Charity Fun Run will be held at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, 12 September 2015 in Amsterdam.

Queensland’s Fifalite Effects Lighting has taken delivery of a brand new MA Lighting dot2 XL-F, a compact lighting console designed for small to medium sized productions up to 4,096 control channels. However, it retains the cleverness of MA Lighting systems, including the 3D visualizer.

Tiffen International has announced the long-anticipated residential UK Steadicam Gold Workshop event to take place at the beautiful Latimer Place near Chorleywood, Buckinghamshire from Sunday 1st to Friday 6th November 2015.

Marking ChyronHego's first win for the sport of rugby, the company today announced that the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has purchased the ChyronHego Paint telestration/visualization tool for use in a major, global rugby tournament taking place in England Sept. 18 to Oct. 31.

South African lighting designer Peter Rieck is the proud owner of one of MA Lighting’s new dot2 XL-F consoles. Peter, an industry professional for 15 years and one of the country’s leading television lighting specialists recently launched a new company, Rieck’s, headed by himself. Having been an MA user for the last seven or so years, the first thing the new venture did was purchase its own dot2.

I-MOVIX and Polecam have collaborated on the development of a new product of the class-leading X10 ultra slow motion range. Already in use by Logo2 Producciones for behind-the-goal action at top Spanish football matches, the system is based on a lightweight configuration of the I-MOVIX X10 system optimised for use with Polecam cranes for portability, speed, and flexibility in situations where the camera needs to be closer to the action.

After 22 years working for LEMO, Richard Thomas will be retiring from the position of Managing Director of LEMO UK. During his time at LEMO UK he has been actively involved in the development of new ranges of connectors, the F Series and M Series initially for F1 applications but increasingly for Defence and Aerospace, created a full package of Broadcast Connection solutions based around LEMO’s 3K.93C SMPTE compatible hybrid fibre camera connector, established a fully qualified connector and cable assembly service and managed the construction of new state of the art premises in Worthing.

IABM is proud to announce that its recently appointed CTO, Stan Moote, is set to be awarded the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®) 2015 Digital Processing Medal Award.

Audinate, creator of the industry-leading media networking solution Dante, has announced the opening of a new Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. The office will provide business development, technical sales and customer support in the greater Asia Pacific region.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Belgian public broadcasting company VRT have unveiled the LiveIP Project, a multi-vendor system integration to showcase IP-based live broadcast production. The collaboration between EBU, VRT and a group of innovative industry partners sees the implementation of a live TV production studio at VRT’s premises in Brussels. It uses state-of-the-art IT-centric hardware and software, including Axon’s Synapse based networked multiviewer technology, to enable broadcasters to produce programmes quickly, efficiently and cost effectively.

Clear-Com’s FreeSpeak II roaming wireless solutions will be on display at IBC2015, demonstrating the flexibility of intelligently mixing system components from either band on the same system.